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December 2013

Beyonce Changes the Game with Surprise Album Drop

-Forget everything else that happened today — Beyonce just broke the internet. by releasing an album with no publicity, no advanced warning and no leaks. It’s a game changer. I’ve been listening to “Blow” a lot, which is great even though the first couple of listens actually made me blush.

-Meanwhile, here are the videos’ Easter Eggs, and the best reactions to her impromptu album release. That instagram comment on her vegan cupcakes photo kills me.

–Joaquin Phoenix was actually super friendly and fun on Jimmy Fallon. It’s a Christmas miracle!

–George Clooney reiterates his stance on those gay rumours, makes us all swoon.

-Flare is getting some flack for their cover image touchup of Jennifer Lawrence.

-Here’s the full trailer for House of Cards’ second season.

–Angelina Jolie might end up testifying in News Corps’ phone hacking lawsuit.

-Meanwhile, the royal scandals revealed in the phone-hacking trial are kinda boring.

–Geena Davis just solved Hollywood sexism in two easy steps. God, I love her.

–Khloe Kardashian filed divorce papers today against Lamar Odom, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Says a source, “Khloé has been very, very hurt by everything.”

-Sony is Avengers-izing the Spider-Man franchise, giving Venom and the Sinister Six each their own movie.

–Amy Poehler has no plans to join social media thanks to her previous encounters with online comments: “I always get my feelings hurt, even if someone is flattering.”

-Meanwhile, Amy and Tina Fey‘s new Golden Globes promos have landed.

-Saturday Night Live will add black female cast members in 2014 — finally.

–Julia Roberts was on David Letterman this week. They’re friends so he gave her some belated birthday flowers — as well as a subtle way to shoot down those pregnancy rumours.

-Speaking of late night antics, Paul Rudd has an amazing habit of showing the same movie clip every time he goes on Conan.

-Jon Stewart’s take on Megyn Kelly and Fox freaking out over the “war on Christmas” was perfect.

–Ed Helms is rebooting the Naked Gun movies, which is…actually not a bad idea.

-Speaking of reboots, Matthew Perry is developing an Odd Couple one for CBS.

–Nigella Lawson lied about cocaine use under oath, the celebrity chef’s former assistants say in court.

-Interesting: Baz Luhrmann and Shawn Ryan are planning a TV drama set at the dawn of the hip-hop era.

–Connie Britton is coming to terms with the death of the Friday Night Lights movie.  She just needs to listen to some inspirational Coach speeches.

–Will Ferrell says that when Kanye West showed up on the Anchorman 2 set to film his cameo, he “was playing the new tracks a lot—over and over. Even when you’re trying to film, he’s playing the tracks…We got a scared 18-year-old intern to ask him to turn them down.”

-Here’s the first trailer for Life of A King. It’s like Dangerous Minds — with chess.

Lea Michele Opens Up About Cory Monteith’s Death

Lea Michele discusses Cory Monteith's death on Ellen

–Lea Michele talked to Ellen about losing Cory Monteith, and she was articulate and heartbreaking.

-Speaking of heartbreaking, Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel have split. Excuse me while I go sit in a dark room with the Rent soundtrack playing on a loop.

–Kyle Chandler‘s return to series television is no longer happening. Why does today hate me?!

-It turns out Kanye West didn’t actually say, “I am going to make Kim Kardashian a bigger performer than Beyonce.”  So that’s something.

-Meanwhile, South Park took another crack at Kanye in last night’s episode. (Watch the clip quick because it’s getting pulled like crazy.)

-Shhh, Drew Barrymore. Just….shhh.

-I’ve never really had an opinion on Mena Suvari, but her hilariously awkward holiday card is winning me over.

-Speaking of people who are slowly winning me over, Emmy Rossum mocked Gisele Bündchen‘s breastfeeding photo on the set of Shameless.

–Amy Poehler and Billy Eichner forced people to sing Christmas carols on the street: “You don’t know me? Oh, you know me!!”

-Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford‘s custody request has been denied. She’s vowing to fight the appeal.

-Christmas just came early for music nerds. Kathleen Edwards, Iron and Wine, Calexico and Glen Hansard sang a rendition of “Fairytale of New York” on Fallon.

-Wait, so now Cameron Diaz is a lifestyle guru too? I can’t keep up.

-The Golden Globe nominations tend to be a bit ridiculous, but they did a lot of things right this morning, including recognizing Tatiana Maslany’s mad skills.

–Damian Lewis apologised for his stupid ‘fruity actor’ dig at Ian Mckellen, who continues to be super nice about the whole thing. He’s really killing it at this whole social media thing…

–Susan Sarandon says she was stoned at “almost all” the awards shows she’s attended. I think I love her.

-How great is it that Zach Braff is the godfather of Scrubs costar Donald Faison?  They’re one of my favourite Hollywood bromances.

-Legendary publicist Pat Kingsley just gave her first big interview since being fired by Tom Cruise. She touches on their fights about Scientology, but mostly keeps it classy.

-Good on Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson for calling out the crazy Photoshop on the show’s new poster.

-This new Community promo makes it seem like we’ve entered the darkest timeline.

–Conan, Ice Cube, and Kevin Hart asked a complete stranger to give them a lift — and it was great.

–Taylor Swift is hanging out with Lorde now, which can only lead to goodness.

–Jason Segel will play David Foster Wallace in a new biography. My brain is having trouble fully processing that sentence.

-Also hard to comprehend: Prince is going to guest star on New Girl.

-I’m not really feeling the Edge of Tomorrow trailer, but Emily Blunt looks pretty kickass.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Take Over EW

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-Here’s our first look at Tina Fey and Amy Poehler‘s EW cover. I love Amy’s expression. She’s all “you’re damn right, you wanna buy this issue!”

–George Clooney recorded a message for the protesters in Ukraine. So wonderful and noble, I’m even going to forgive him for the vertical iPhone video.

-Wanna feel really bad about your life? Check out Rihanna‘s Instagram feed, where she’s posting all the free stuff designers are sending her for the holidays.

–Kristen Stewart is the new face of Chanel because when you think of luxury goods, her surly face immediately springs to mind.

–Emma Stone and Bill Murray are two of the most charming people ever, so when they joined forces to entertain troops, the adorableness was off the charts.

-Speaking of charming, Tom Hanks was on Kimmel last night and surprised some unsuspecting audience members by posing with them for their holiday xmas cards.

-Prison Break’s Robert Knepper has just joined the cast of Mockingjay as Antonius. Wait, who the hell is Antonius? Is this how they’re splitting up the last Hunger Games book into two movies — by making up new characters?

-Here’s John Goodman‘s SNL promos. Meh.

-The Screen Actor’s Guild nominations came out today, and the snubs were surprising. Among those left out were Robert Redford, Saving Mr. Banks, Orange is the New Black, The Good Wife, Mad Men, Amy Poehler and  Tatiana Maslany. It’ll be interesting to see how tomorrow’s Golden Globe nominations shake down.

-This is a great (though depressing) look at the 16 female TV characters that were bullied by the Internet this year.

-Here’s the first promo for Walburgers, Mark & Donnie Wahlberg‘s food-focused A&E reality show.

-Now that Madonna has broken up with her boytoy, everyone’s wondering if she’ll get back together with Sean Penn. This would be a sweet reconciliation story, assuming we can all forget about that time he held her hostage and hit her with a baseball bat.

–Gisele Bundchen‘s breast-feeding photo is giving everyone lots of feelings and opinions.

-Remember when Kim Kardashian said she was giving a “big middle finger” to everyone who called her fat? Now she’s showing off her bikini body on the cover of Us Weekly. So…yeah.

-I saw Inside Llewyn Davis last night, which I didn’t love as much as I wanted to. But I really liked Oscar Isaac. I like him even more after hearing his folk song take on Katy Perry’s “Roar.”

–Demi Lovato says she used to smuggle cocaine onto planes. Man, I felt guilty that one time I accidentally packed a full-sized moisturizer in my overhead bag and no one noticed.

-Critics who got screeners for the new season of Community are loving it.

–Ellen Degeneres is denying those rumours that her marriage is on the rocks.

-Here’s the red-band trailer for Bad Words, the film starring and directed by Jason Bateman that got good reviews at TIFF.

–Ashton Kutcher is tweeting romantic pics of Mila Kunis.

–Blake Lively is slowly starting to appear on red carpets again. Is she sick of baking pies and ready for a comeback?

-I’m really digging St. Vincent’s new song.

–Lizzie Caplan told a hilarious story about getting plastered the on set of True Blood the first time she had to get naked.

-For some reason, this old interview of Paul Rudd and Jason Segel is making the rounds. They were promoting I Love You Man and were very, very high. (I love that in spite of his altered state, Jason is still really concerned that the interviewer has a job to do.)

-More on Macaulay Culkin’s new band: “And you’re sticking with Velvet Underground and pizza in your future songs?” “Yeah, I think so.”

-Why is everyone losing their poo over the Godzilla trailer? None of the actors actually speak, and the final money shot of the monster is drenched in fog. I don’t get it.